Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō
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| 遙かなる時空の中で ～八葉抄～ (In A Distant Time - Hachiyō Chapter) |
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| Genre | Fantasy, Romance | ||
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| Author | Tohko Mizuno | ||
| Publisher |  Hakusensha VIZ Media |
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| Demographic | Shōjo | ||
| Serialized in | LaLa, Shōjo Beat | ||
| Original run | July 2000 – ongoing | ||
| Volumes | 14 | ||
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| Director | Aki Tsunaki | ||
| Studio | Yumeta Company | ||
| Network | TV Tokyo | ||
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| Original run | 5 October 2004 – 29 March 2005 | ||
| Episodes | 26 | ||
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| Developer | Ruby Party | ||
| Publisher | Koei | ||
| Genre | Otome game | ||
| Platform | PlayStation 2 | ||
| Released | April 1, 2005 | ||
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyō Shō (遙かなる時空の中で ～八葉抄～?) is an anime series and PlayStation 2 romantic adventure video game developed by Ruby Party and published by Koei. Both media are based on the first game in the series, Harukanaru Toki no Naka de. The PlayStation 2 game is an enhanced remake of the original game.
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[edit] Plot
High school student Akane Motomiya is summoned into another world that resembles Kyoto during the Heian Period (approx. 800-1200 C.E.) to be the Ryūjin no Miko (龍神の神子 Priestess of the Dragon God?), a legendary figure who possesses the power of the gods. Akane is told that she must defend this world, called Kyō, from the encroachment of the Oni Clan (鬼の一族?) before she can return home. Fortunately, she has the assistance of eight men known as the Hachiyō (八葉 Eight Leaves?) in this task.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Main Characters
- Akane Motomiya (元宮あかね Motomiya Akane?)
- The main character, she is a cheerful, forthright highschool freshman. She always thinks of the positive and is very merciful. She has short red hair and green eyes. She wears a violet kimono top and her school uniform under. She has recently been known to be able to use her celestial powers to purify. Akane is summoned into the world of Kyō by Akuram and becomes the Ryūjin no Miko (龍神の神子 Priestess of the Dragon God?). She is the only person capable of communicating with the Ryūjin, and with the help of the Hachiyō, she can use the powers of the five elements to defeat the onryō (怨霊 vengeful ghosts?) that the Oni Clan has unleashed throughout Kyō. Although she has to defeat the Oni Clan, she has found herself attracted to Akuram. Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami
Voiced by: Miki Shinichirou
See Morimura Tenma.
- Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki
See Inori
- Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi
- Voiced by: Kouki Miyata
- Fujiwara no Takamichi (藤原鷹通?)
- Byakko of Heaven (天の白虎?).
- See Fujiwara no Takamichi
- Voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara
- Tachibana no Tomomasa (橘友雅?)
- Byakko of Earth (地の白虎?).
- See Tachibana no Tomomasa
- Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue
See Eisen
- Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi
- Abe no Yasuaki (安倍泰明?)
- Genbu of Earth (地の玄武?).
- See Abe no Yasuaki
Voiced by: Akira Ishida
- Fuji-hime (藤姫?)
- The descendant of the Star Clan (星の一族?) who assists the Ryūjin no Miko. She looks very young, and is in fact only ten years old, but she's also very wise for her age. She is the daughter of the Minister of the Left, an important ranking figure at the imperial court, and therefore speaks very formally at all times. The 'hime' in her name indicates that she is the daughter of a wealthy and influential individual. She is the first person Akane meets when she enters Kyou, appearing as she does in the Star Clan's mansion house. Voiced by: Ikue Otani
[edit] Oni Clan
- Akuram (アクラム?)
- The leader of the Oni Clan, he summoned Akane to Kyō. He has long blonde hair that is always in a top-knot and he always wears a nobleman's hat. He often wears the colour red and a kimono. A mysterious feature about him is that he always wears a mask. Akuram intends to use Akane's powers to rule Kyō. His interest in Ryuujin no Miko often makes Shirin jealous. Voiced by: Ryoutarou Okiayu
- Ikutidaru (イクティダール?)
- Ikutidaru is Akuram's right hand man and probably the oldest of the surviving oni. Of all of the oni clan he has the greatest sense of conscience, and is often torn between his loyalty to his people and his love for Inori's older sister Seri. In the anime, he once disobeyed Akuram and had his eye removed as punishment for the crime (although in the manga it is not explained how he came to lose his eye) He has a strongly protective - almost paternal - instinct where Sefuru is concerned (although Sefuru is rarely appreciative of that fact). Voiced by: Koji Ishii
- Shirin (シリン?)
- The only female among the Oni Clan, Shirin holds affection for Akuram. She is very jealous of Akane. She has long red hair and blue eyes. She wears men's kimonoes with a touch of feminine taste and wears the same hat as Akuram. She always has a sword at her side and can control men by dancing and seducing them. She once tried to seduce Takamichi and was upset when he rejected her advances.Voiced by: Maria Kawamura
- Sefuru (セフル?)
- This half-human, half-Oni boy was taken and raised by Akuram. This boy has blonde hair and blue eyes. He thought that Shimon was a demon as well and liked his company. But he plotted revenge when he saw that Shimon was one of the Hachiyo. He specializes in summoning evil spirits and acts on Akuram's behalf partly because he is afraid to be once more abandoned. Voiced by: Yuu Asakawa
- Morimura Ran (森村蘭?)
- Technically not a blood member of the oni clan, Ran is actually Tenma's long lost sister from modern day Kyouto. She was summoned into Kyou by Akuram some time earlier, but was too frightened to be able to connect with Ryuujin and become Ryuujin no Miko. In her despair, she reached out instead to the black dragon Kokuryuu (黒龍?) and became engulfed by its power, erasing her memories of her past life and putting her under Akuram's control. Ran continues to battle with her alter-ego throughout both manga and anime, though perhaps more significantly in the manga. Voiced by: Hoko Kuwashima
[edit] Others
- Kotengu (小天狗?)
- Kotengu (literally, "little tengu[1]") is the nickname given to the Tengu of Mount Funaoka (船岡山｜Funaoka-zan?), one of the northern mountains around Kyou. Although originally a fearsome creature, Kotengu's power was sealed by Yasuaki and he was confined to a miniature form in which he could do no magic (but plenty of eating and complaining). He is semi-adopted by Akane and the Hachiyou and although he is constantly threatening revenge on Yasuaki, he settles down to quite often run errands for the group. In the anime, Kotengu's magic is unsealed by Yasuaki to let him fight against the possessed Byakko, and though defeated, he survives the encounter and returns to his miniature form.[2] In the manga, his fate is less clear cut. It appears that he was killed after a similar battle with Ikutidaru, in which Eisen mistakenly prevented Kotengu from attacking the oni, therefore leaving him defenceless.[3] Voiced by: Junko Shimakata
In the anime he revived at the end and is seen a last time with Yasuaki, who he seems to bother by flying happily in front of him laughing when walking in a street, he end up with some magic incantation on the head, the only mean Yasuaki has found to make him quiet.
- Seri (セリ?)
- Inori's sister, who is in love with Ikutidaru despite knowing that he is a member of the oni tribe. Seri is weak physically, but mentally very strong. It is hinted (though not openly said) at several points in the anime that Seri is pregnant with Ikutidaru's child - and at the close of the anime it is shown that they have a newborn baby.[4] Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa
[edit] Episodes
The twenty-six episode anime series has been licensed by Bandai Visual and will be released in a series of nine volumes under the title HARUKA: Beyond the Stream of Time – A Tale of the Eight Guardians. A new volume will be released monthly with the first volume being released April 22, 2008 and the final volume due January 13, 2009.[5]
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| 1 | "Thou, Priestess of the Dragon God" (汝、龍神の神子) |
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| Akane Motomiya together with her friends, Tenma Morimura and Shimon Nagareyama are abducted by an unknown masked man and are carried to place known as Kyou (which is quite similar to Kyoto). The masked man tells Akane that she is the Dragon Priestess. | ||
| 2 | "Kyō, Invaded by Demons" (鬼に魅入られし京) |
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| 3 | "Onmyōji" (陰陽師) |
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| 4 | "The Flower-Calming" (はなしずめ) |
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| 5 | "A House in the Mist" (露の宿り) |
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| 6 | "The Vice Minister of Civil Affairs and the Concealed Oni" (治部少丞と内裏の鬼) |
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| 7 | "The Night the Nue Cried" (鵺の哭く夜) |
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| Yurihisa meets again with his long lost friend and fights him because he captured the Dragon priestess, akane. In the end, he kills his friend with his katana. at first he did not want to but his friend told him that if he will not do it, he will kill Akane and him. | ||
| 8 | "The Flame Which Despises Oni" (鬼憎みし焔) |
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| A guy named inori despises Oni very much. the reason is unknown but it seems to be that her sister is involved. He became a Hachiyo when he tried to save akane from an oni. | ||
| 9 | "Uncanny Melody - The Eight-Stringed Koto Part 1" (妖しの調べ 八絃琴 前編) |
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| A monk died because of playing an eight-stringed koto. his soul still dwells and plays the koto. an oni appeared and put Akane to sleep. abe Yasuaki told them that the Akane might sleep for a long time. it can even last up to ten years. they captured the oni and they asked the oni on how to break the curse on akane. the oni told them that they must find the string that was added to the koto. that's the only way on how they will break the curse of the eight stringed koto. | ||
| 10 | "Ripples of the Fallen Blossoms - The Eight-Stringed Koto Part 2" (散華の波紋 八絃琴 後編) |
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| The Hachiyos' knew that if they will play the koto, they might have the same fate with the monk who died playing the koto. later on, they found who is the seventh Hachiyo. it was eisen. at the end of the episode, Akane finally woke up and the curse of the eight stringed koto was gone. | ||
| 11 | "The Cursed Miko" (呪われた神子) |
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| A mysterious girl proclaims herself as the dragon priestess. akane went out to find out who this girl was. when they met the girl, Tenmarealized that the girl is his younger sister, Ran, and followed her. He came upon with another oni whom they already met at the temple. The oni came for Ran and told her that they should go. Ran injured the arm of his brother and went away. When Tenma went home, he told akane that the other Dragon Priestess is his younger sister. And that she doesn't recognize him anymore. At the end of the episode, Akane woke up from a bad dream and found many dead butterflies under her quilt and screamed. Yasuaki told akane and the other Hachiyos that the Dragon priestess was cursed ad will die tomorrow night. | ||
| 12 | "The Darkness in Which Oni Lurk" (鬼ひそむ闇) |
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| Akane stayed with Yasuaki to free her from the curse and they did it successfully. But the curse went back to its giver, Ran. Tenma found Ran lying on the bridge but then Akuram appeared and took Ran. He told Tenma that he would give back Ran if Tenma surrendered the Dragon Priestess in exchange for his sister. Akane heard all this and told them to let her. She went to the bridge and told Akuram that she was there. Then a demon-like horse came and Akane rode on it. Tenma tried to stop her but failed. All the Hachiyo had a vibe that something bad was happening. Akane was lying on the grass with flowers and right by her side was where Akuram was standing. Back at the bridge, Tenma yelled for Akane. Abe Yasuaki heard his shout and ran back to where he came. | ||
| 13 | "Free Your Heart" (心、解き放て) |
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| Akane went with Akram, and found herself in a burning city. She soon found out that it was only a dream. | ||
| 14 | "The Future Shown in the Rainbow" (虹告げし未来) |
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| 15 | "A Heart Which Overcomes Hatred" (憎しみを越える心) |
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| 16 | "Day of Atonement" (贖罪の日) |
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| 17 | "The Oleander Woman" (夾竹桃の女) |
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| 18 | "Akane-hime and Fourth Chamberlain" (四位の侍従と茜姫) |
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| 19 | "Unstoppable Emotions" (止められぬ想い) |
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| 20 | "The Light You Have Been Given" (貴女に授かりし光) |
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| 21 | "Oni and Humans" (鬼と人) |
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| 22 | "When Oni Emerge" (鬼出づる時) |
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| 23 | "Twilight" (かわたれ) |
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| 24 | "The Four Gods Released" (放たれた四神) |
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| 25 | "Parting of the Clouds" (天雲の別れ) |
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| 26 | "To You, in the Distance..." (遙か、君のもとへ･･･) |
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[edit] References
- ^ Haruka -Beyond the Stream of Time- A Tale of the eight guardians OFFICIAL WEBSITE
- ^ Hachiyou Shou Episode 24
- ^ Harukanaru Toki no Naka De Manga Volume 10
- ^ Hachiyou Shou Episode 26
- ^ Bandai Visual (2008-01-15). "Bandai Visual USA Announces Release of Anime Based on Popular Shōjo Game Franchise" (pdf). Press release. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
[edit] External links
- Neoromance official site
- TV Tokyo website
- Haruhachi Koei official fansite
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- J!-ENT interview with "HARUKA" director Tsunaki Aki (4/2008) By Dennis A. Amith and Michelle Tymon [j-ent]
